Colony stimulating factors (CSF) biosimilars. Progress? 2012

Florian Scotté, and Vincent Launay-Vacher, and Jean-Baptiste Rey
European Hospital Georges Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, 75015 Paris, France. florian.scotte@egp.aphp.fr

Biosimilars are equivalent drugs for other biotechnological drugs for which patent has expired. These biopharmaceuticals are often looked upon as simple copies of parent drugs whose goal is solely to potentially generate costs savings. The expansion of available drugs is a subject of attention, criticism and quarrels, often related to a lack of product knowledge. These drugs are copies but need scientific development that must meet many strict rules. Many questions arise in connection with the marketing of several biosimilar drugs in the field of hematopoietic growth factors of white and red cells. Many of them should be discussed.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D003115 Colony-Stimulating Factors Glycoproteins found in a subfraction of normal mammalian plasma and urine. They stimulate the proliferation of bone marrow cells in agar cultures and the formation of colonies of granulocytes and/or macrophages. The factors include INTERLEUKIN-3; (IL-3); GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; (G-CSF); MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; (M-CSF); and GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; (GM-CSF). MGI-1,Macrophage-Granulocyte Inducer,Colony Stimulating Factor,Colony-Stimulating Factor,MGI-1 Protein,Myeloid Cell-Growth Inducer,Protein Inducer MGI,Cell-Growth Inducer, Myeloid,Colony Stimulating Factors,Inducer, Macrophage-Granulocyte,Inducer, Myeloid Cell-Growth,MGI 1 Protein,MGI, Protein Inducer,Macrophage Granulocyte Inducer,Myeloid Cell Growth Inducer
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001688 Biological Products Complex pharmaceutical substances, preparations, or matter derived from organisms usually obtained by biological methods or assay. Biologic,Biologic Drug,Biologic Product,Biological,Biological Drug,Biological Medicine,Biological Product,Biologics,Biopharmaceutical,Natural Product,Natural Products,Biologic Drugs,Biologic Medicines,Biologic Pharmaceuticals,Biologic Products,Biological Drugs,Biological Medicines,Biologicals,Biopharmaceuticals,Products, Biological,Drug, Biologic,Drug, Biological,Drugs, Biologic,Drugs, Biological,Medicine, Biological,Medicines, Biologic,Medicines, Biological,Pharmaceuticals, Biologic,Product, Biologic,Product, Biological,Product, Natural
D013810 Therapeutic Equivalency The relative equivalency in the efficacy of different modes of treatment of a disease, most often used to compare the efficacy of different pharmaceuticals to treat a given disease. Bioequivalence,Clinical Equivalency,Equivalency, Therapeutic,Generic Equivalency,Clinical Equivalencies,Equivalencies, Clinical,Equivalencies, Therapeutic,Equivalency, Clinical,Therapeutic Equivalencies,Bioequivalences,Equivalencies, Generic,Equivalency, Generic,Generic Equivalencies
D014018 Tissue Distribution Accumulation of a drug or chemical substance in various organs (including those not relevant to its pharmacologic or therapeutic action). This distribution depends on the blood flow or perfusion rate of the organ, the ability of the drug to penetrate organ membranes, tissue specificity, protein binding. The distribution is usually expressed as tissue to plasma ratios. Distribution, Tissue,Distributions, Tissue,Tissue Distributions

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